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• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  were true. Working hard and being lucky are not mutually exclusive. In ... 't misunderstand me. You should work hard. You must work hard. Just not too hard ... Princeton 2012 Commencement. His address was entitled "Don't Eat Fortune

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Best from staff

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  and work at MIT, ten years ago today. I've been thinking about what I ... this institution and the work of admissions has meant to me, is too ... 's oddly gotten harder, not easier, over time. But today, I just wanted to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  I’ve learned more about the inner workings of MIT from my summer job than I learned in one year of being a student… and I’m not even working ... just met, “No, that’s probably not going to work.” It was really cool

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  working in RGB mode - CYMK is sometimes buggy for me (click the triangle to ... can add a new page by clicking on the symbol boxed in dotted green, and ... thickness, but can be changed. Here I've made the first line red, dotted, and

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  do you care so much? You’re not American anyway. But I am black. Racism ... battles, just on different fronts. Today, I am not mincing my words. Even ... death on the street, with less dignity than a stray dog. And it’s not just

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questions and Answers Evan Broder is taking over my job.

  

  , and it also makes a great excuse to not to work. Mostly, though, it just ... having a painted room over a white one without having to do any work? Mike ... students, but I'm not sure if that program is still around. You can dig

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  commencement address was delivered by Megan Smith '86 SM '88, the Chief ... , Megan worked at Google, where she oversaw Google[x] and Google.org, and as ... things in our school’s history is something that’s not in the motto [of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  ’s backyard). I'd like to share how I found myself working for this 1.5 year old ... internships and jobs, whether you attend MIT or not. This fall I took 2 ... form teams of 2-4 students and go to work designing (mostly with

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  technology and techniques needed to do that work. But Lander is not one of ... steer notoriously individualistic scientists to work together. With his ... earning a master's in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tech Nomads Four MIT students are spending the summer racing 8000 miles across Europe. Find out why.

  

  thousands of miles of adventure. "Not only do we provide the world's most ... back in the comfort of your ger and enjoy a well-earned drink as the sun ... them with livestock, training and advice. We work with some of the most

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Financial Aid

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  does not have an Elon Musk-sized inheritance from my parents and who has ... make living work without having to eat instant ramen every day in the ... because dorm spam is not an indicator of class lol (no correlation between

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  opposite of paint." Now I think we've got it. Only, I'm not sure it has ... , so I know there is one somewhere, but I'm not sure where. So I asked ... laboratory work, research, or other science-related jobs, etc). Have you or

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Not Admitted Students I just wanted to tell you a story. It has a moral, but you don't…

  

  you choose to go - even if it's not at MIT. I want to share with you a ... I mean good for all of you and I'm not being trite or superficial. I ... gathered to watch the challenge mere dots beneath his feet. --- Down at the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Last night in Haiti I have about three hours to sleep until we have to catch our flight out…

  

  , instead of seeing wide windows filled with electric light, you see dots everywhere, as if you're looking at the stars but against a city, not a sky. It ... , but I fully intend to continue working with our partners here in Port

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  . In my work with prospective college students, (as an admission officer ... about you as a result of reading your essay? Student:  I'm not sure. Me ... takeaway address the most important (or at least a sufficiently important

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  . Yet Thresher’s words do not promote a particular issue or ideology ... processes and policies mean little if the outcome of our efforts do not address what every college and university has articulated in its mission: to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  , tied with CalTech. I'm not going to bother complaining about the well ... Ben Jones did a terrific job handling my light work. Instead, let ... ; how these surveys fail to address criteria important to underrepresented

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Judd Logan is my homeboy He's amazing, so amazing

  

  nation to have earned a Bill and Melinda Gates Millennium Foundation ... will pack his bags for Boston. It is not surprising that scholarship ... . Logan would like to be a computer scientist or engineer. But after earning

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  Wow, lots of questions to address today! I guess I'll start by ... mouse project, I've been working on a yeast two-hybrid screen. Basically ... ) plasmid, and the proteins interact, then the yeast cell lives. If not, the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  streets. -- Salman Khan, in his commencement address to the MIT Class of ... address, and the truth that I found in those specific words that I quoted ... in to be even half as fit as before. In one season I had worked my mile

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012